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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

Donald Trump and the return of the antivax “monster shot”

Donald Trump meets with RFK Jr.
Donald Trump and RFK Jr. (along with Mike Pence) in 2016 during the presidential transition period.

Donald Trump called Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to try to gain his support. During the call, he repeated antivax tropes that he’s been repeating since 2007. A second Trump administration would be a public health disaster.

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Vaccines cause autism, which leads to progressivism and…Trumpism?

Toby Rogers
Toby Rogers is an economist. He thinks he knows autism, vaccines, progressivism, and epidemiology, "thinks" being the operative word.

Antivax transphobe Toby Rogers got the bright idea that many of the central tenets of progressivism are actually autistic traits. So vaccines cause progressivism…and Trumpism, too? WTF?

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

“New school” anti-(COVID-19)-vaxxers are all-in on “old school” vaccines-cause-autism antivax

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New school antivaxxers are becoming more and more like old school antivaxxers.

Over the last month, Orac has noticed that “new school” COVID-19 antivaxxers are rediscovering old school “vaccines cause autism” pseudoscience in a huge way. Also, there’s transphobia. Lots of transphobia. WTF is going on?

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One more time: The Republican Party is the antivaccine party

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NPR recently did a story about the alignment of the Republican Party and antivaxxers. Come for the freedom, stay for the antivax pseudoscience and conspiracy theories.

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Hacker X: How Mike Adams expanded his quack empire to politics

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Robert Willis, a.k.a. "Hacker X," helped Mike Adams expand his misinformation empire from health into politics.

Ars Technica recently published a story about Hacker X, who helped Mike Adams expand his online empire of health fraud into an empire of fake news and political disinformation, thus intertwining health and political misinformation into the deadly combination we see now.